Thread-topic: diskutil convertRAID hosed my array...
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On 25/6/07 16:59, Christopher Waltham wrote:
> I have a G5 Xserve running 10.4.8 Server, with a pair of 80GB drives
> in a RAID1 array. One of the disks became degraded this morning, but
> diskutil didn't fix it automatically. This seems to be because the
> array was created in 10.3.9 Server (i.e. Panther), and thus was made
> with AppleRAID version 1.
>
> So, I booted off a 10.4 install DVD and ran "diskutil convertRAID" to
> convert the array to AppleRAID 2 so that I could repair it. The logs
> from diskutil say that everything went flawlessly and it only took a
> couple of minutes to complete. However, upon rebooting the Xserve
> after that, the RAID array exists but the volume it contains has
> seemingly disappeared.
[snip]
> Short of buying a copy of DiskWarrior, does anyone have a fix for
> this? Or has anyone even seen this happen before?
Chris,
I am afraid that this has been reported before, and seems to be the rule
with Panther RAID-1 arrays that are not converted to Tiger format before
trying to repair them under Tiger.
I don't know if this has made Apple's KnowledgeBase yet, but I reported it
in Bug Buster in The Works in MacUser in vol 22 (2006) issue no 24,
following email from Simon Banton.
I would be surprised if DiskWarrior would be of much or any help - I advised
Simon to go to a commercial data recovery specialist. I do not know what the
outcome was.
Sorry,
Howard.
Dr Howard Oakley
The Works columnist for MacUser magazine (UK)
http://www.macuser.co.uk/http://www.howardoakley.com/
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